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 Release Date: 1987 Tagline: Some fight for money... Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love. Director: Menahem Golan Writers: Gary Conway and David Engelbach (story), Stirling Silliphant and Sylvester Stallone (screenplay)
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 Plot Synopsis by Erik: Stallone stars in the world’s first and only film to explore the world
of professional arm wrestling. Sly plays Lincoln Hawk (or Hawks,
depending on the scene), a blue collar trucker with a well-to-do son,
Michael, from his marriage to some lady from Bel Air. She asks Hawk(s)
to pick up their son from military school for his summer(?) break. Hawk(s)
and Michael have never actually met as Hawk(s) left his wife and infant
son for some undisclosed reason. (No, seriously, the actual reason for
Hawk(s) leaving is never stated.) This angers her father, ROBERT LOGGIA,
who hires goons to kidnap Michael as he and Hawk(s) bond over the road,
learning to arm wrestle, and delivering Brut. Somehow, LOGGIA convinces
Hawk(s) to give over custody of Michael after Hawk(s) rammed his truck into LOGGIA’s Bel Air home. With nothing else in his life, Hawk(s) accepts the
change to win the championship of arm wrestling in Las Vegas. Meanwhile,
Michael discovers all the letters Hawk(s) wrote to him but, for some
reason, his mother never gave to him. Michael makes his way to Las Vegas
using the blue collar smarts Hawk(s) gave him. When LOGGIA finds that Hawk
has one the championship, he decides Hawk(s) is a good man and gives
custody of Michael back to him. Together, Hawk(s) and Michael roam the
country in Lincoln Hawk(s)’s new truck, which he won as part of the arm
wrestling prize. Keep an eye out for the on-camera interview portions where the arm wrestlers reveal their deepest thoughts. Hawk(s): “When I turn my cap, it’s like a … switch that goes on.” |
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